Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno. U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman JoLynn Worley says 77 mustangs involved in the Calico Mountains Complex gather have died so far — 70 at a Fallon facility ...

Nevada's mining industry has lost an early legal bid to keep Nevadans from voting on a ballot measure that would dramatically increase mining taxes in the richest gold mining state in the nation. District Judge James Wilson Jr., at a hearing today in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The recession slowed most homebuilding in the United States to a standstill but it has fueled demand for a special kind of housing: the granny flat. As unemployment hovers around 10 percent and healthcare costs spiral upward, homebuyers like Stephanie Charbeneau want to cut costs by sharing shelter with her extended family. Charbeneau, a 27-year-old court recording ...

Attorney General Eric HolderÕs announcement Monday that the Justice Department will not prosecute medical marijuana users, if those people are following state laws where such use is legal, represented a display of compassion and common sense lacking in the previous administration. The department under the George W. Bush administration stuck to ...